TroyT

Posted 30 July 2004 - 11:28 AM

TroyT

My Little Mermaid

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Anthelia (sp) a cousin of Xenia.

Green Striped Mushrooms

Leather Coral

Kenya Tree (Capnella sp)

All of these grow like crazy in my 18 inch high 80w of PC lighting. The Kenya Tree has dropped four babies already and the babies are almost has big as the mother. I need to start trading some. The mushrooms have basically taken over the bottom of the tank and look great. They lay flat and spread open really wide. They drop babies maybe once every two weeks. The leather has quadrupled in size in the past 3 months.

z3gsr

Posted 30 July 2004 - 11:33 AM

z3gsr

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I have Anthelia and xenas I have 7watts per gallon in my nano. I had them for 4mo and they wont even spread? What gives I change my water every week and I supplement my tank with idione ,sttrouim and mobley (I know it didn't spell it right.) What gives?

newbiecarlz

Posted 30 July 2004 - 11:30 PM

i would be very interested to hear some more opinions on this topic. i have a boyu cube - 12 gal with 11watt light. at the moment its a 6500K tube but LFS are ordering me a 50/50 actinic bulb.

question is, what can i keep with an 11watt 50/50? could i put mushrooms in if placed high in the tank? what else? i posted this question on the beginners forum and had a few suggestions; mushrooms, yellow polyps, zoos and green star polyps.

phergus_25

Posted 31 July 2004 - 07:32 AM

phergus_25

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under my stock nano cube lighting i have xenia, a rock anemone and some zoo's and everything looks and grows great, i'm going to add 32 more watts but just so i can expand. One other thing is in my 40 i have just two home depot 40 watt 48" flourscent bulbs and i have some xenia in there, it dosent really grow much but it is alove and constantly pulsing, so really go with xenia for a while and mushrooms, becuse they can look great and are easy.

yoshiod9

Posted 31 July 2004 - 08:51 AM

yoshiod9

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before i upgraded my lighting(two times now!) i had a bunch of different mushrooms, some zoos, some yellow polyps, a bubble and hammer(both at the top) and sun coral...that was all in a 12g eclipse with something like 13w of light.

cjm033

Posted 31 July 2004 - 01:35 PM

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i think with NO lighting youd be able to keep leathers anthelia and xenia up top. some shrooms,zoos,yellow polyps,gsp,and of course non photosynthesetic corals. this would be a good idea for a tank expierement, like a 10 gal with 3 or 4 15 watt NO's. i think i might try it.

lightbill

Posted 18 August 2004 - 06:11 AM

nanocurious

Posted 18 August 2004 - 07:00 AM

nanocurious

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I had mushrooms, star polyps, and a pink colt coral frag(grew three inches) with 1 48" actinic, and 1 48" 20,000k NO flourescent strip light on my 55, and everything was healthy, until a real bad power failure happened and the tank crashed>such a shame. I think it has more to do with intensity, than with watts per gallon.

Posted 18 August 2004 - 07:19 AM

Farrah

Posted 19 August 2004 - 05:55 AM

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In my stock nanocube lighting (24watts of 50/50 PC) I have mostly softies, including shrooms, rics, zoos (zooanthus, protopalythoa, palythoa, and parazooanthus), star polyps, and a leather. I also have some LPS that so far seem to be doing well -- blastomussa, candycane, and a hammer.

sweevo

Posted 24 August 2004 - 01:31 PM

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I kept zoo's, green hairy 'shrooms, anthelia and a whopping leather toadstool in a 10G with 2xNO 18W ( white & Blue ). The zoo's apart, the corals had what "I would call" reasonable growth seeing as it was a very basic setup.